Minerva Healthcare Center celebrates inspection success

Published: May 4, 2017 12:00 AM

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Minerva Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center honored staff members at an awards ceremony April 28 as part of celebrations to recognize the facility's recent ratings on its health inspection from the Ohio Department of Health.

Administrator Ryan Valiquette said the annual survey, which is unannounced, took place from April 3 to April 6 when ODH staff arrived at the center to survey residents, families and staff. The ODH found Minerva Healthcare to be free of deficiencies and in compliance with all 198 federal regulations regarding care, resident safety and quality of life.

Minerva Healthcare also received a deficiency-free survey evaluation from Life Safety, which focuses on the environment, fire safety, and emergency procedures of the facility.

Minerva is one of 15 skilled nursing facilities in the state of Ohio to have earned such an honor thus far in 2017. Of the state's 936 skilled nursing facilities, 52 achieved a survey free of deficiencies in 2015 while 46 earned deficiency-free ratings in 2016.